Count to five is a unique delay/sampler that offers many sonic possibilities. These are best shown by demonstration in the videos above below. The video above was made by Knobs. They will be back in production soon, please sign up for the mailing list in the top right corner to be notified!

This is an expansion on my GB24 pedal made sometime last year. It is a lot more than just an update to the original pedal though so here is a breakdown of the similarities and differences. There is now a MODE switch that picks between 3 different patches.

Mode 1:
This is very similar in concept to the original
GB24 except that now you can use the EXP switch to select which
parameter the expression pedal controls. You can assign it to the read
head direction, buffer length or feedback. The expression pedal cannot
be used to control the mix unfortunately.

Also a bunch
of people wished the direction/speed control could be quantized to
musical intervals. Now you can achieve this by pressing the second foot
switch and moving the DIR 1 knob. You can pick between 3 settings:
1) No quantization (freedom baby, go from litereally a stand still to
double speed forward or backward, just like the original, for those
familiar)
2) Quantization resulting in chromatic intervals across +/- 1 octave forward or backwards
3) Quantization to only perfect fifths and octaves across +/- 1 octave forward or backwards

Mode 2:
This
patch allows you to sample a clip and then play it back in slices. You
can record a clip by holding down the secondary footswitch and then
releasing it when done. As soon as you let go playback starts according
to the pot settings. DIR 1 controls the playback speed/direction, LEN S
(LEngth of Slice) controls how long of a snippet/grain to play and RAND
(RANDom) controls the variability of the slice position. So for example
with RAND turned all the way down the slice always starts at the
beginning of the recorded sound, but as you increase RAND the start of
the slice is picked more randomly from the originally recorded clip.

Once
a clip is recorded you can either record another clip while the first
one is still playing by holding down the secondary footswitch OR you can
reset the record buffer by tapping the secondary footswitch. If the
pedal is bypassed while a sample is playing, it will still be playing
when you re-engage the pedal.

The EXP switch can again be used to pick which control the expression pedal replaces (DIR 1, LEN S, RAND).

Mode 3:
This
patch also allows you to sample a clip for looping. You can do so by
holding down the secondary footswitch. When you release the footswitch
playback begins immediately. The controls for this mode are DIR 1, DIR 2
and DIR 3. Essentially now there are 3 playback heads running on the
same clip. You can independently control the direction/speed of each
one. In this mode the EXP switch functions quite differently compared to
the other modes. Since all knobs have a similar function, the
expression pedal always replaces the DIR 1 knob. The EXP switch is then
used to control how many read heads are actually active. You can toggle
between 1,2 and 3 active heads which allows some nice dynamics/cool
layering.

Holding the secondary stomp down again while
your clip is playing will overdub onto the original clip. Tapping the
secondary switch will stop playback and reset the clip buffer.

Other features:
The
pedal has a mini-usb jack which is accessible by removing the back
plate. The goal of this is to allow user end firm-ware upgrades/custom
code deliveries etc. There is however no usb functionality under normal
use so don't get tooo excited.

In general the sound
quality is much improved over the original gb24 and the sampling/loop
time is equal, about 8 seconds. However, in the second patch only 4
seconds of sampling time can be used per sample, this allows a new
sample to be recorded while the old one is still playing back. Check out the user demos in the playlist below for more sound samples.

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Hope all is well. I'm having an issue with the Count To 5 I recieved from you last Month. Let me tell you first that I loooove the pedal. Thanks so much for coming up with it. I have been messing about with it for I think maybe 3 hours in total and now the pedal does something wierd. It's pulsating very loud and low frequencies. I've got it powered with an Boss PSA 230V adapter and it worked just fine, but now also the LED light on it pulsates if I turn it on. Same thing if I hook it up to an isolated channel of my powerbrick (250mA, 9V). I've emailed you about it but am waiting for a reply. Thanks!

Just updated my K and 2-switch CT5s today and I put both on the board sandwiching a Ditto Looper x4. Craziness ensued.

I do have a pretty pretty please request for a future Quantization mode - TIME STRETCH, but without the pitch shift - not talking about a perfectly clean time stretch... more like a stuttering time stretch with those shaky artifacts . :)

Hi there,what kind of expression pedal should I use? TS and/or TRS plug and which Ohm value (range)? I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered before but I couldn't find the question or the info anywhere.Thanks!

I did read that Scott said they are finished the next batch, and are in testing stage. That was late July. So hopefully a August roll out !!!Saw one for sale on eBay for 399 pounds/$518US.... thought I'm not paying that much... but when it sold, a little sadness, like have I missed out on one of these amazing pedals .

Don't buy for inflated prices second hand. Those people are jerks. I waited six months for my CT5, ordered it straight from Scott, and I'm so so happy I did. I absolutely cherish the thing, and I enjoy it all the more for not giving in to 'pedal touts'.

Yeah so right.So their out now, the email for Scott saying the count to five is out..Brought mine yes!!! And half the price for what the guy for selling it on eBay for..Yep it was worth waiting for ...Quick lads if you want one they don't last long.. but no pressure haha

Arrrrrrrgh! Can't believe I missed them. When I got the email, I was out in vacation. I thought I would buy one when I get back, but they're all gone :-(I guess I'm gonna have to wait for the next batch.....hope it's gonna be soon.

Just got this and entranced for hours - Love - esp. with new firmware.

but I can think of one more thing that would make it more useful to play in real time - as I play it next to my Hexe Revolver II and imagine performing with it.Kind of a 'less is more' option, that I think would make it more useful live, and something I like about the Revolver.

The range on the "Dir 1" button in Mode 1 and 2 - goes an octave up and down on either end (from reversed to normal)If there was a way to just have it go back to the original pitch on each end rather than go up/down the extra octave .Then (especially w/ expression pedal) it would really work better and more intuitively in live-time applications to get back to the original sampled pitch and back and forth. Otherwise one has to wing it to get back to that, which isn't easy at all.

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Hi I love this pedal!A couple of things I’m not sure I understand:In mode 3 - how do I get the first playback to be identical to what I recorded. E.g. I record a phrase and then release the secondary foot switch and then I want the first playback to be identical (no pitch or other change). ?And also in mode 1 when setting the knobs in identical positions to previous times, I’m getting different results. In between I have played around with mode 2 and 3. Are things that I am doing in mode 2 and 3 remembered when I switch back to mode 1- how would I make sure that mode 1 knobs always produce same result? CheersJoel

@Joel Goodmanthe easiest way to do this is set teh pedal to a quantized mode that isnt free/no quantization. then you can find the unison position easily, it is around 2 o clock. Then just record and the playback will be the same as you recorder.

Mode 2 or 3 do not influence the result of mode 1 unless you have transcendence on, bu tin this case i think it would be obvious what mode 2 and 3 have contributed.

I’ve only had a few hours with the Count to 5. I’m absolutely blown away by what this effects pedal can do. Hands down one of the most well thought out pedal I’ve played. Way more musical than I imagined.

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I saw a few of the Montreal Assembly pedals on reverb, linked from the comments here, and thought to myself, "I sincerely hope that at least a few of those are sold by Montreal Assembly themselves". At least the money goes to the right hands, and not someone who just wanted to make money by moving stuff.

Imagine every pedal builders (well, it would be mine anyway) dream: To be able to live off your work comfortably!

If not, next time, dear Montreal Assembly, give 10 pedals per batch to your mum, tell her to sell one every quarter. Maybe you'll get an awesome birthday present back!

Hi!Any chance that Mode 2 gets some 'hidden' functions as well?It would be so great to have some additional controls over modulation or randomness in that mode!I've seen many similar requests/comments on Knobs\Youtube and blogs as well, so I think I'm not alone in this.

In mode 1 if I hold down secondary switch it keeps freeze/repeating whatever I happened to play as the hold is initiated. The instructions says that shouldn’t happen. Based on that, what version do I have?